When I spoke at the Arabian Business Awards a few years ago, I was puzzled by the number of people in the audience who took photos of my slides. Both findings seem easy to remember – at least in ...

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...

Our minds have a tendency to latch onto negative experiences more strongly than positive ones. While occasional negative thoughts are a common human experience, persistent ones can trap people in a ...

Scientists discovered that sleep deprivation damages a key brain circuit responsible for social memory, making it harder to recognize familiar individuals. In laboratory studies, caffeine restored ...

Memory problems affect virtually everyone at some point in their daily lives, yet people often feel embarrassed or worried when they experience these perfectly normal cognitive hiccups. The human ...

If the neurologist Dr. Daniel Lesley sees 10 patients a day, at least half ask him the same question: Are the brain lapses they’re experiencing a normal part of ...

Dear Savvy Senior: At age 70, I’ve become more and more forgetful lately and I’m concerned it may be an early sign of dementia. Are there any memory screening tools or services that you can recommend ...

Wait, what was the name of that actress from the series I watched yesterday? If you also find yourself refreshing Google or the chat again and again to get answers instead of recalling them yourself – ...

Scientists are gradually understanding more about how and when music therapy works. One of the known uses of music in therapy is for Alzheimer’s and dementia therapy, where listening to music can help ...

OpenAI has launched a major ChatGPT memory upgrade that improves factual recall, personalization, and long-term conversation ...

This post is NOT devoted to memory problems related to normal aging, also called age-associated memory impairment (AAMI) where there is still some controversy whether it truly exists or there are ...